ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research

The ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR) is a South American regional center in the city of São Paulo created in a collaboration of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), the Instituto de Fisica Teorica (IFT) of São Paulo State University (UNESP) and the Sao Paulo Research Funding Agency (FAPESP). Its activities include seminars, minicourses, schools and workshops for graduate students and researchers in all areas related to theoretical physics, as well as outreach activities for the general public and for high-school students and teachers. The center has funding for short-term and long-term visitors as well as for postdoctoral and permanent researchers.

 

 

 

São Paulo International Schools on Theoretical Physics

School on Biological Physics Across Scales: Phase Transitions
January 12-23, 2026

School on the Next Era of Network Science: Nonlinear Dynamics, Multiscale Interactions and Beyond
March 2-6, 2026

EGSnrc Monte Carlo School for Medical Physics
March 30 – April 3, 2026

IV School on Glasses and Glass-ceramics
April 27 – May 1, 2026 (Instituto Principia)

School on Astroparticle and Multi-Messenger ‬‭Astrophysics
June 15-26, 2026

IX Perimeter-SAIFR-IFT Journeys into Theoretical Physics School
July 6-12, 2026

IV Joint ICTP-SAIFR/ICTP-Trieste Summer School on Particle Physics
July 13-24, 2026

School on Open Quantum Systems: theory and experiment
July 27 – August 7, 2026

 V Patricio Letelier School on Mathematical Physics
August 17-28, 2026

 School on Analytical and Numerical Methods for Disordered Quantum Systems
September 14-25, 2026

School on Recent Advances in Strongly Correlated Quantum Materials
October 5-9, 2026

School on Quantum Simulation in the NISQ Era
November 9-13, 2026

3rd Quantum Computing School
November 16-27, 2026

Minicourses and Meetings

Research Group Meetings on Quantum Technologies
January – December, 2026

Research Group Meetings in Astro & Cosmo
January – December, 2026

Physics of Life South American Network Meetings
January – December, 2026

ICTP-SAIFR Steering Committee and Scientific Council Meeting
February 9-10, 2026

Effective Field Theories at work: a practical minicourse
July, 2026

Programs and Workshops

High-Pressure Mineral Physics and Geophysics Applications
February 2-6, 2026

Workshop on Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics
February 23-27, 2026 (Instituto Principia)

Workshop on Foundations and Applications of Spreading Phenomena on Complex Networks
March 9-12, 2026

APS-SAIFR Satellite Global Physics Summit
March 16, 2026

Challenges of Low-Dimensional Quantum Gases: Brazilian-German Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar
March 23-27, 2026 (Instituto Principia)

Theory Meets Practice: Energy Correlators and Detector Operators
May 4-8, 2026 (Instituto Principia)

Horizons Beyond the Standard Model: from Colliders to Dark Matter and Axions
June 1-12, 2026 (Instituto Principia)

‭Third Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors: the view from Latin America
June 29 – July 3, 2026 (Instituto Principia)

Thermality in Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetimes
August 3-7, 2026 (Instituto Principia)

PHENOEXP 2026
August 10-12, 2026

Novel Developments in Correlated Quantum Materials
October 12-16, 2026 (Instituto Principia)

4th Symposium on Current Topics in Molecular Biophysics – CTMB4
October 17-19, 2026 (Instituto Principia)

3rd LSST@LATAM Meeting
November 2-6, 2026

Outreach

VI Escola de Verão ICTP-SAIFR para Jovens Físicos
January, 2026

VI Curso de Verão ICTP-SAIFR para Professores de Física de Ensino Médio
January, 2026

Ciência no Cinema
January – December, 2026

Clube do Livro Sci-SAIFR
February – December, 2026

Distinguished Public Lectures
February – December, 2026

Física Moderna para a Sala de Aula
March – November, 2026

Minicursos para Estudantes de Ensino Médio
March – December, 2026

Papos de Física
March – December, 2026

ICTP-SAIFR Competition for Young Physicists
July 11, 2026